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    Street Scene roll pan with SRT8 style center exhaust

    Now that I've got your attention I'm trying to get some opinions, ideas, suggestions, advice and Photoshop skills so that I/we can see what this could potentially look like to help me make a decision.

    Shortly after buying my truck, apparently all my cats were either clogged or close to it, so I had the post cats deleted and Magnaflow post cats installed. On a stock engine, this sounded fine, but was bordering on my limit of DD'ing. Since going built due to breaking a rod, I had to install headers since I was told 500hp was the choking point on the stock ones. The exhaust now is to the point where it's just too much for me...it's not bad inside due to all the Dynamatting I've installed, but under throttle I'm almost embarrassed how loud it is, especially when I have the passenger side windows down, so for the most part they stay up so I don't have to listen to the echo off buildings, other cars, etc. My thoughts are that if I redo the exhaust so that it exits out the back, it'll solve my problems. My truck is a 2002 DSG, lowered 2" in the rear, otherwise nothing crazy. I do plan on going lower, a few more inches front and rear, so low hanging tips could cause an issue.

    My starting point to build from - http://www.carid.com/2001-ford-f-150...-12496726.html

    Google images only finds me ONE F150 w/ a center exhaust exit, but it's missing the license plate mounting - http://www.truckinweb.com/features/1.../photo_02.html I've thought about going as far relocating the license plate to the bed (I don't like those lowrider mounting boxes, they're too simple and blah) via intergrating something like a Lincoln Navigator license plate assembly into my tailgate - https://www.google.com/search?q=2002...Q&ved=0CBIQvwU but it creates two problems...I think that might be overkill on the tailgate, and then the opening in the roll pan itself isn't really shaped in a way that a simply rectangular exhaust tip will fill the space appropriately. This is where I was hoping someone w/ Photoship skills could come into play so I can see it visually.

    If that doesn't work, my next step was doing something very wide and thin, then just mounting either one tip under the license plate itself, or even doing something like notching two areas on the LH and RH side of the plate into the roll pan itself, something like /``````\ [ABC123] /``````\ The stock exhaust on my BMW 740iL had turned down tips, so nothing could be seen. Instead I notched the bumper,finished the edges in black door edge molding and installed Magnaflow 14816 mufflers - https://www.google.com/search?q=1998...ll=1&oq=&gs_l= to give it an E39 M5 sound and look, so I'm going with that same train of though...notched so it looks more intergrated into the bumper vs just hangind down below.

    Here are some random pics of tips I've found that I might like, but wanted some opinions. The more I type, the more I think doing notches on each side the of roll pan will better. While some of these are center exhaust pics, some are dual center exhaust tips that I could incorporate into the notched roll pan:

    http://www.camaro5.com/forums/showpo...3&postcount=17
    http://ls1tech.com/forums/13149512-post3.html - The first pic is a perfect example of what I'm trying to avoid, the second being what I'd prefer, but the rollpan doesn't leave room for notching it below the license plate, so the wide tips are what I'm looking at here
    http://www.ls1gto.com/forums/showpos...4&postcount=11 - not sure if tips with rounded corners would look good on a truck with such a square backside
    http://www.mustangperformanceparts.b...enter-exhaust/ - tips like this could work to fill the area if I competely deleted the stock license plate location on the rollpan, but then I back to questioning how a Navigator license plate assembly would look intergrated into the tailgate. There are LOTS of pics of cars with overly large, round tips like this, which is what I like...but I'm not sure if I could make it work
    http://www.skyroadster.com/forums/341025-post10.html - this tip would almost definately fill the license plate hole, but see above...I'm not ruling it out though.

    I'm still searching for pics of a bumper that's notched on each side of the license plate, but I think you guys get the idea. As I said, I'd love opinions and suggestions, but most importanly someone w/ Photoshop skills so I can see it for myself.
    Last edited by m5james; 07-21-2014 at 01:36 PM.

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